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B. REDMOND.

GUN WAD. No. 274,378. Patented Mar.20, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND REDMOND, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB (F ONE-THIRD TO WALTER B. DUFFY, OF SAME PLACE.

GUN-WAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,378, dated March 0, 1883.

Application filed December 20, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDMOND BEDMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gun-Wads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wads for use in breech-loading shot-guns, and the object of my invention is to provide a gun-wad that will reduce recoil, prevent leading in a gun-barrel, prevent the bulging of a cartridge-shell, and, when paper shells are used, obviate crimping or grooving the loaded shell and allow the shot to be seen in the cartridge.

Heretofore the shot in cartridges have been retained in position by a wad, which was held in the cartridge-shell by friction with the wall of the shell or by having the cartridge-shell prei sed in against the external side of the war In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a sheetmetal wad with serrated edge, and perforated to permit inspection of the shot and render the wad elastic. Fig. 2 represents awire-cloth wad holding the shot in position in a cartridge. Fig. 3 represents a top view of a wireeloth wad.

My invention consists of a disk the edge of which is serrated and its shortest diameter perforated. The disk or wad is preferably cut out of sheet metal or wirecloth.

" When the wad is to be employed over the shot it should be a little larger in greatest diameter than the interior of the shell, so that it will catch in the wall of the shell when pressed home against the shot. If found desirable, the wad for use on the shot could be made, eoncavo-convex, so that when pressed flat against the shot in the shell its edge would be extended laterally and penetrate the shellwall deeper than an originally fiat wad would.

In making the wad it should be finished with a sharp edge on one side and a blunt one on the other, and in loading the cartridge the rounded edge or convex side of the wad to be used over the shot should enter the shell first. The sharp edge of the projections on the wad will then catch in the shell-wall when pressed home against the shot.

In case the wads are made of wire-cloth the fabric can be prevented from coming apart by passing the cloth through. That would press the wires into each other at their intersections; or wire-cloth that has been dipped in melted zinc, and the wires thereby firmly united, may be used.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A gun-wad perforated through its face and having theedge serrated or jagged, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination ot'a cartridge-shell with the perforated wad having a serrated edge.

EDMOND RE DMOND.

Witnesses OWEN REDMOND, H. M. G. REDMOND. 

